The spread of synthetic diamonds in China, originally designed for industrial purposes such as oil drilling, is posing such a threat to the global diamond market that it has forced dominant player De Beers to invest tens of millions of dollars on methods to identify the man-made stones that look exactly like the real thing.

Of course women-- as directed by GC -- will want men to pay for a real ruby that costs more than a Chinese "diamond" even though said chink diamond is EXACTLY THE SAME FUCKING THING THAT THEY DEMANDED BEFORE.

That law could be rescinded and designations of real or lab would be prohibited. Activists want to figure out a way to stop the flow of blood diamonds and this is the simplest most straightforward way.

It doesn't seem like it can easily be detected, requiring huge machinery. And, there's such a large activist crowd against the diamond trade in Africa, it's hard not to see them seize this opportunity.

i'm not going to make up that i know the price of every machinery that GIA has in its lab, but you'd be an idiot to think they cant buy a 50k machine to stay on the cutting edge of what they do. they're the industry leader in diamond grading. this is what they do.

Date: March 13th, 2018 3:32 PMAuthor: Thanks Mario! But our partner is in another castle ()

This is absurd. If it's identical to the naked eye and requires a specialized machine to tell the difference, then for nearly all purposes the lab diamond is an identical product that costs a lot less. Conventional diamonds will be for various types of fool-- people who like something just because it costs more, people stupidly using it as a store of value, people trying to compete on price with others people they know, etc. For everybody else, there's literally no reason to prefer one over a lab diamond.

my point is that lab vs natural diamonds are no different than any other kid of high-quality forgery/copy. people still buy $300 burberry scarves when you can get the same shit on canal street for $15 and nobody knows the difference. some people will always irrationally buy a $300 burberry scarf even if it defies logic.

goys like buying "luxury" items b/c they honestly believe it is higher quality, even though it is literally made of the same material. plus some goys think their purses and scarves are "investments" JUST LJL

it took a while for pddj's ring to get made so she wanted to wear something. we got a $100 ring at macys (and returned it later) bc she wanted to wear something. everyone said it was so beautiful and made the same comments about the $100 ring that they made about her actual ring.

There was a 180 gender war thread around 2008-2009 that started out as an engagement ring price thread. The focus switched to synthetic diamonds and nearly every female poster said they wouldn't want a synthetic. After miles of subthread wastelands, they couldn't produce a single choate explanation as to why. I think medea or 1XX lbs. of fat chick eventually reduced it to 'natural diamonds are special because they come from the earth.'

Date: March 13th, 2018 4:35 PMAuthor: Wheeling over Syringes in San Fran

lol @ all you GIA proles. AGS is the HYS of diamond grading and stones of real quality go there for accurate assessment.

AGS = real = best stones

GIA = scores everything 1 notch more generous than AGS = better than average stones that wouldn't get anywhere close to AGS 000 rating.

EGL & IGI = TTT, 2-3x more generous than AGS across, total fakery for people that want to buy a "certified" diamond from lower end chain stores. The only thing it gives you is that it's a real diamond, but you can't trust it at all for the specific qualities.

Date: March 13th, 2018 4:42 PMAuthor: Wheeling over Syringes in San Fran

I got super into PRICESCOPE when I bought my wife's e-ring ~9 years ago, so got a pretty solid education on round diamond evaluation and ideal ratios. I don't know much about colored stones, but the board jews did help me on my recent ruby GC-approved "right hand" ring I bought her for Christmas.